Pegli (Ligurian: Pêgi) is a neighbourhood in the west of Genoa, Italy.

[1] With a mild climate and a promenade, Pegli is mainly a residential area with four public parks and several villas and mansions.

According to an oral tradition, on November 21, 1854, Giacomo Della Chiesa, later to become Pope Benedict XV, would have been born in Pegli, in the holiday palace of the Marquises Della Chiesa.

In front of the palace, where he often stayed as a child and sometimes as an adult before his election to the papal throne, there is a small monument, whose inscription claims the birth of the future pope.

[3] However more reliable sources say he was born in the main family palace, in via di Santa Caterina, in the center of Genoa.